Convert PLY to OBJ in your browser
ASCII PLY — the format photogrammetry and laser-scan pipelines export — is plain text, so it is parsed and rewritten as Wavefront OBJ right here on your machine.
PLY → OBJ converter
Runs entirely in this browser tab. Your file is never uploaded and nothing is stored.
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Passo per passo
- 1Export your scan as ASCII PLY (binary PLY has to be re-saved as ASCII first; MeshLab and CloudCompare both do this in one step).
- 2Drop the .ply file above.
- 3Download the .obj and import it into your renderer, mesh tool or CAD package.
- 4Set the units on import — PLY declares none.
A cosa fare attenzione
- Vertex colours, normals and scan confidence values are not carried over: standard OBJ geometry has nowhere to put them.
- Point clouds with no face element cannot become an OBJ mesh — mesh them in CloudCompare or MeshLab first.
- Binary PLY is refused rather than guessed at, so you never get a silently mangled mesh.
The Stanford scan format. Plain text in its ASCII flavour, which is why photogrammetry and laser-scan meshes can be rewritten here.
A plain-text mesh format listing vertices and faces — openly documented, which is why it can be read and rewritten in the browser.
Domande dei disegnatori
Why does it say my PLY is binary?
The header line reads 'format binary_little_endian'. Open it in MeshLab and re-save with the ASCII option ticked.
Can I keep the scan colours?
Not in OBJ geometry. Keep the PLY alongside it, or bake the colours to a texture in your mesh tool.
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